Our vacation will be coming up next week. I have a long list of "TO DO" before we go. I already reserved a room in a motel in Rawlins, Wyoming. Clint preferred that we are to go there on Wednesday and stay a night before we have to be at Martin's Cove at 11 a.m. all ready and dressed up in pioneer clothes. We will have to pack up with tent and stuff. We will be camping out at Martin's Cove, stay with mom and dad for six days in Rapid City then go down to Medicine Bow National Park to camp out with Clint's family. It will be a week and half vacation and I am glad we are able to do all at once in one time so we can save the money from being spent on gas.
I will have to make sure that we are all packed up, pioneer clothes being all done, bills being paid, Shadow being taken care before we go. I am going to borrow canopy from my sister so we can stock camping stuff into there.
I am not done with food storage but I understood that it is a project in process here. I can put it on hold for a little while.
I hope to finish bonnets for girls today. I am done with aprons and bloomers. I'm glad. Tomorrow, I will have to get started on vests for Timmy and Clint.
Fun fact here . . . There are many UPS stores that will do same day MTC delivery for just two dollars to four dollars. I sent a huge 16 lbs box yesterday and just paid 4 dollars for it.
Last weekend was crazy! We managed to survive through it! We had fun carnival, visit to cousins in Syracuse, house chores, and helping my sister out. It was so hectic that I felt so worn by Sunday!
On Friday, I took them over to my sister's house and they played with their cousins. I had lots of fun watching Sebastian and Timmy hanging out together. They both are just a month apart. They keep on following each other, imitating each other and playing games with each other. They talked with each other but I don't know what they told each other. Probably holding conversation about how they don't want to go in for naptime. Ha ha. The other older kids enjoyed jumping on the trampoline and swinging. Girls have had their princess tea parties and the boys played Wii games. In between those times, they played with water balloons. For some reason, girls decided that the water balloons are eggs and they keep on moving their hoard over this spot and that spot. Sometimes, on cruel mean streak, boys decide to smash their eggs just to watch girls' reactions. We ended putting some of them in time-out- especially Ian!
On Saturday, I took Ian with me and drove up to Salt Lake City to help my sister with her move. The rent went up so my sister wasn't able to afford living there. She found a two bedrooms apartment and got a roommate. So we all painted the wall of her old apartment that had green paint on, shampooed the carpet and helped with some there and there. I left at noon and came back home to do some chores. At 4:30 p.m., Clint and I took kids to fun carnival and Winger's. Suzy loved ferris wheel the best. We all shared two chairs and were able to go up very high. It was always wonderful every time! Then in the evening, Clint had work he had to do so he went over his work and worked there for three hours. There was a project that had bug in it and he had to get it done before the people in Saudi Arabia get up and start working at their computer. Clint explained to me that people over in Saudi Arabia's weekend is on Friday and Saturday. Their Sabbath is on Saturday. Isn't it so interesting?!
Well, swimming lessons were over by last week. I'm so glad we can sleep in those days. I will have to do visit teaching before this month is up. My companion is making appointments for tomorrow. I better go . . There's projects lying in wait for me to do.
Love you all!
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
"Love and Hate relationship"
I don't know how I should be giving it that title or not. I just said it because I found myself doing something like crazy then leaving it sitting there cold for weeks and weeks. For an instance - a project like food storage ... The last time I did it was four months ago. Now I am back to the project and working like crazy.
What I did do related to food storage:
1. Cleaned out the basement which took me total of 8 hours. There was mud everywhere due to flood problems in the past. We hosed down the mud, scrubbed the mud off the floor with water and large broom, and sucked them up into wet/dry vac machine. We poured them back into the floor where they all came from. Ha. That's the area that was supposed to be tub and pipe. Clint smashed some of the floor out and put down 3 foot barrel down there and installed a temporary sump pump to pump the water out while we had flooding problems.
2. Went shopping at Costco and Walmart. I purchased some cans, large bags and white buckets. I was meaning to store some wheat into white buckets. In dry good condition, they can last up to thirty years. Isn't it so amazing?! Walmart had hard wheat bags for sale . . . 11 dollars per 25 lbs which is a very good price considering the current state of our market on food. I got heaps of them. Tomorrow, I will be going to Dry Cannery in Lindon that belongs to the Church. I will be sure to ask for more of beans, rice, dehydrated milk. I am running out of dehydrated milk very quickly. I usually like to use them for baking purposes. I have been focusing on getting long pantry life type of food now. Then I can focus on shorter types. I am terrible at rotating them. ha.
3. I already am beginning to transport the food down to the storage space downstairs. I already strained some leg muscles. I was out of breath for a short while but I am feeling better. I will have to put that on hold for today. I already am planning on baking and all today. I have some stuff in my freezer that need using up.
4. I will be getting a humongous nice freezer. I hope to fill it up with freezer jams and such. A friend of mine told me about a place where you can get meat at cheaper price. I definitely am interested!
So that's my plan for food storage so far. I have been at like a crazy lady now! Ha. I am afraid that if I don't get it done, I will NEVER get it done at all!
My other project is making pioneer clothes still. I am working on girls now. I had my friend enlisted in doing that. She is so quick!! Those dresses do look so big but that's only size available. I am working on aprons, bonnets and bloomers. They should be quicker than dresses. My dress took me days to complete.
I love www.dearelder.com!!! I just started using it as per my brother in law's request. It was appalling so easy and user friendly. ALSO the letters sent to MTC are FREE! I was able to write him many small things during I am at the computer. I hope that he can get those letters on daily basis from Monday to Friday. Clint accused me for doing too much of it. I think he said it because I am making him guilty for not doing it enough. I threw back at him reminding how much missionaries like him love getting letters! Ha.
This week and last week, we are having swimming lessons. It usually takes me about an hour and half. first 1/2 hour to get ready for swimming (lotion, showering, and going to bathroom) then swim for 1/2 hour then lastly 1/2 hour to change clothes and load up in the van. I like doing it in the mornings. It makes less clothes to wash. Kids usually go directly from pajamas to swimsuits. Then after swimsuits, they just have to wear clothes for remainder of the day. There won't be any library activity or park day this week. My friend, Nancy, is going to Disneyland this week so moms don't get together this week for park day. As for library activity . . . Our library is doing an inventory week. There's American Fork Steel Days to enjoy. We will be doing city of carnival fun, picnic day, and probably bbq dinner. I am excited about that. I hope to visit Susan this Friday.
Have a great and fantastic week, my dearest friends and family!
What I did do related to food storage:
1. Cleaned out the basement which took me total of 8 hours. There was mud everywhere due to flood problems in the past. We hosed down the mud, scrubbed the mud off the floor with water and large broom, and sucked them up into wet/dry vac machine. We poured them back into the floor where they all came from. Ha. That's the area that was supposed to be tub and pipe. Clint smashed some of the floor out and put down 3 foot barrel down there and installed a temporary sump pump to pump the water out while we had flooding problems.
2. Went shopping at Costco and Walmart. I purchased some cans, large bags and white buckets. I was meaning to store some wheat into white buckets. In dry good condition, they can last up to thirty years. Isn't it so amazing?! Walmart had hard wheat bags for sale . . . 11 dollars per 25 lbs which is a very good price considering the current state of our market on food. I got heaps of them. Tomorrow, I will be going to Dry Cannery in Lindon that belongs to the Church. I will be sure to ask for more of beans, rice, dehydrated milk. I am running out of dehydrated milk very quickly. I usually like to use them for baking purposes. I have been focusing on getting long pantry life type of food now. Then I can focus on shorter types. I am terrible at rotating them. ha.
3. I already am beginning to transport the food down to the storage space downstairs. I already strained some leg muscles. I was out of breath for a short while but I am feeling better. I will have to put that on hold for today. I already am planning on baking and all today. I have some stuff in my freezer that need using up.
4. I will be getting a humongous nice freezer. I hope to fill it up with freezer jams and such. A friend of mine told me about a place where you can get meat at cheaper price. I definitely am interested!
So that's my plan for food storage so far. I have been at like a crazy lady now! Ha. I am afraid that if I don't get it done, I will NEVER get it done at all!
My other project is making pioneer clothes still. I am working on girls now. I had my friend enlisted in doing that. She is so quick!! Those dresses do look so big but that's only size available. I am working on aprons, bonnets and bloomers. They should be quicker than dresses. My dress took me days to complete.
I love www.dearelder.com!!! I just started using it as per my brother in law's request. It was appalling so easy and user friendly. ALSO the letters sent to MTC are FREE! I was able to write him many small things during I am at the computer. I hope that he can get those letters on daily basis from Monday to Friday. Clint accused me for doing too much of it. I think he said it because I am making him guilty for not doing it enough. I threw back at him reminding how much missionaries like him love getting letters! Ha.
This week and last week, we are having swimming lessons. It usually takes me about an hour and half. first 1/2 hour to get ready for swimming (lotion, showering, and going to bathroom) then swim for 1/2 hour then lastly 1/2 hour to change clothes and load up in the van. I like doing it in the mornings. It makes less clothes to wash. Kids usually go directly from pajamas to swimsuits. Then after swimsuits, they just have to wear clothes for remainder of the day. There won't be any library activity or park day this week. My friend, Nancy, is going to Disneyland this week so moms don't get together this week for park day. As for library activity . . . Our library is doing an inventory week. There's American Fork Steel Days to enjoy. We will be doing city of carnival fun, picnic day, and probably bbq dinner. I am excited about that. I hope to visit Susan this Friday.
Have a great and fantastic week, my dearest friends and family!
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